Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt… — Henry A. Kissinger
We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. — Robert Breault
Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics. — Victor Borge
Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This… — P.G. Wodehouse
To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men! — Arnold Schwarzenegger
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections — Joseph Addison
Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic? — BrenÃ© Brown
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea.… — Carl Sagan
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something… — Stephen King
The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty. — Judith Crist
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature… — Francis Bacon
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I… — Henri Matisse
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets. — Paul Gauguin
Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics. — Robin Sharma
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. — Robert Burns
A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he… — Robert A. Heinlein
Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that… — Arthur Lynch
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. — Harold Bloom

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